NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden First Approached The Washington Post To Publish His Leaks But The Post Declined

Snowden took his information to Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald (pictured) when the Post would not comply with some of his demands

NSA Whistleblower First Approached The Washington Post With His Leaks But The Newspaper Refused To Comply With His Publishing Demands -- Daily Mail

* NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden first approached the Post in early May* Sometime during the week of May 20, Snowden requested that the Post publish in full within 72 hours a PowerPoint slide on the NSA Internet data collection program dubbed PRISM* The Post refused to meet his demands so Snowden took his information to the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald* Greenwald broke the story on NSA call surveillance late last Wednesday* The Post broke its story on PRISM the next day

The former intelligence worker who was the source of bombshell stories on top secret government snooping programs first approached the Washington Post with his trove of information in early May, the Post's Barton Gellman has reported.

But the Post refused to fulfill some of Edward Snowden's specific requests, so Snowden took his information to The Guardian's Glenn Greenwald, who then became the first to publish a story on the leaks.

My Comment: The Washington Post got cold feet .... blaming Edward Snowden's demands for missing on what is without question the biggest intelligence leak since the leak of the Pentagon papers by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971.